Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing,...
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Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and ""travelees"" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: TravelsIn/Out; 1. Tourism, Sustainable Development, and Ethnic Identity:A Critique; Introduction; Tourism and Ethnicity: ABrief Overview; Tourism, Development, and (Social)Sustainability; Tourism:An Agent of Development?; Tourism and Ethnic Identity in Zanzibar: ABrief Case Study; Conclusion; References; 2. Between Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny:Spanish American Travel Narratives of Jacksonian America; Travel Writing and the Construction of Nationhood
Spanish American Travel Writing of the United StatesLorenzo De Zavala's Viaje a Los Estados Unidos Del Norte De América(1834); Ramón De La Sagra's Cinco Meses En Los Estados-Unidos De La América DelNorte (1836); Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. "The Politics of Location":American Travel Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century Greece; American Concepts of Greece; Types of American Travelers; The Merchant Type; The Nostalgic Hellenists; The Protestant Missionaries; Notes; References; 4. The Rhetoric of Unreality:Travel Writing and Ethnography in Edith Wharton's In Morocco; Discourses of Travel
The Discourse of History and the Discourse of Dreams in In MoroccoInteraction; The Rhetoric of Unreality in the Hamadchas Blood Rite; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5.Narrative Trans-ethnicity in the Correspondence of John Xántus and Spencer Fullerton Baird; Borders and Culture Trade in Small Stories; John Xántus and Spencer Fullerton Baird: Collectors and Storytellers; Culture Trade and Trans-Ethnicity in the Small Stories of the XántusNarrative; Conclusion; References; Part II: TravelingTexts
6. Traveling Texts and Tropes:Oedipus in the Township, the Iliad in Australia, Judges in Haiti-Towards a Transcultural-Local AestheticsNotes; References; 7. "Can't Films Be Therapeutic?" Cinema, Psychoanalysis, and Zionism in Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir; Notes; References; 8. Traveling acrossthe Nation: Chinese Migration and the American Western Plays of the 1870s; The Myth of the West on the American Stage; The "Heathen Chinee" and American PopularCulture; Justifying National Politics Through the Chinese Fetish; Notes; References
9. Religious Syncretism, Iconography, and Trans-Ethnic Subjectivity Construction: The Role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in María Cristina Mena's and Cherríe Moraga's LiteraryWorkThe Ambivalent Symbolism of the Virgin of Guadalupe; Guadalupe's Trickster Potential in Mena's Short Stories; Moraga's Virgin of Guadalupe as a Community Leader; The Virgin of Guadalupe as Trans-EthnicMediator; Notes; References; Part III:Travelers Displaced; 10.Hotel Hades; References; 11. Passports and Prayers:Relocating an Irish Religious Identity in Mary Anne Madden Sadlier's Emigrant Novels; References
12. The Impossibility of Transporting Identity:The Representation of Diasporic Irishness in Transatlantic Irish Fiction, 1860-1900
